green on the screen is light rain from southern maryland down .o the northern neck the back edge moving through spotsylvania, and fredericksburg. continue moving east. will become sunny later this morning. 49 in arlington and chevy chase. frostburg, 32 of the freezing mark. berkeley springs, west virginia, 40 degrees of. the mid to upper 50's, breezy, partly cloudy. you had your glasses on earlier that always makes me nervous. documenting a crash in prince .eorge's county they will have to do measurements near rose croft court on brinkley rd.. this is a serious crash that they have to document. that's not a good option. take st. barnabas road instead. worries on the beltway. virginia, good nose.

looks good in springfield. northbound headlights, more of them, but still moving at speed all the way to the pentagon. first trains out on normal service from metro rail. back in less than 10 minutes. >> we want to get to breaking news. shooting inved northwest d.c. two officers responded to fired alongunshots eastern avenue. john gonzalez is on the scene latest. >> good morning. still a very active scene this morning. strewn acrossnce eastern avenue. police from montgomery county the district's started receiving calls around 12:40 morning of gunshots being fired on the street. police heard the gunshots when they arrived and encountered the armed man. continued firing.

two montgomery county police officers returned fire. veteran and a rookie. is armed man was struck and a hospital in critical condition. >> we had several officers case.ding to the one of the officers had a m.utine training with hi both of the officers were involved in the gunbattle. >> the officer of eight years in hand and is being treated. after the shooting a young woman the scene visibly upset. us that she is a suspect.of the suspect lives here on the block. d.c. police are taking over the investigation. they are waiting for a search warrant to go into the armed home. john gonzalez reporting. >> thank you. we want to move on to the latest developments into the death of two infants.

latest happened last night in prince frederick, maryland. >> investigators did tell us of theveral members out a were cleaning they found the body of an infant in the trunk. those relatives are being along with the owner of the vehicle. in prince william county, virginia, officers trying to if how much 3-month- old girl died. >> she passed away after being bused from home day care in m a homefro day care. we spoke with other parents. >> i did not find out until after i picked up my child. police are trying to determine. a woman hasppens son to the day care at this home more than two years. police shut down the day care last night. i was shocked and felt really sad for the child and the family

thethen i felt sad about they are veryuse nice ladies. basically raised my child. police say a caller told baby girl was unresponsive. s taken to hospital but later died. officers say other children were in the home at the time but no one else was hurt. >> it's very unnerving. really trust anybody. >> other parents say the owner visiting her ailing father. several assistants were running the day care in her absence. >> police have discovered no evidence of foul play and no charges have been filed. no cause of death has been determined. federal officials searching whose arrest could collapse a child sex crime ring. danish officials found sexually explicit video of the man and a between eight and 10 years

old. danish officials contacted investigators in fairfax. they believe the man have video in order to access to a private network of child predators. you see newes membershipst to gain and then that will continue. homeland security investigators say the suspect is and ise united states toddler and goes .y the name tim you are asked to contact their tip line located on our website wjla.com. 5:05, 50 degrees this morning in stafford. still ahead, a tragedy in locale are learning about during alocked down shooting at a psychiatric hospital. >> new england welcome to warm weather, but there was destruction. >> another check on traffic and weather every 10 minutes. there is a look at 270. weather every 10 minutes. there is a look at 270. not a lot

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some areas saw wind gusts more than 50 miles an hour and over 30d winds well miles an hour. >> closer to home, we saw some but not to that extreme. let's check in with adam caskey find out what to expect. >> we were in the 70's yesterday and had gusts in excess of 40 hour in a few locations. time of year when it because we have good temperature contrast over of land.istance generates gusty wind. spring is a good time to fly a kite. . as of rain in charles county, george's county, down to thety neck and middle peninsula. over 95 insing county and spotsylvania county. become sunny later this morning. 51 degrees in the district, 52 in quantico. martinsburg, 44, 45 in

frederick. will continue to filter in. for the high temperature today. tomorrow, but sunny. >> in thegeorge's county rose crofton area, brinkley rd. closed near the entrance that take youtube deale elementary school. that would take you to dent elementary school. looks good out of southern maryland's. clear, 66, 95 in and out of baltimore. pretty good trip all the way around the beltway. travel times in our favor between richmond and baltimore. back to you. >> thank you. a developing story. fairfax county high school from as recovering terrifying experience. were placed on lockdown during a shooting rampage in pittsburgh yesterday. a gunman entered the university

of pittsburgh psychiatric clinic yesterday, killed one person, d another. m james madisonro school robotic steam happened to be on campus taking part in a competition. >> it is very frightening. i cannot imagine being in that situation. >> the gunman was shot and killed by campus police. a swat team swarm to the area for a possible second shooter. team was blocked in event center about hours. students are doing fine. >> if you see police presence in today don't be alarmed. there's a law enforcement training exercise taking place from 9:00 this morning until 4:00 this afternoon. the park is at the corner of wilson boulevard and oakland street. >> 46 degrees in rockville. >> still to come, of the blame continues in the presidential race. what republican candidate mitt romney says president obama is partly prices. for high gas says president obama is partly prices. for high gas >> what brought some

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down a child sex crime ring. officials believe this man tim and the lives in the united states. turning to the 2012 campaign. republican presidential romney says that a shares part of the blame for rising gas prices. romney says the president is processof the permit for and on and offshore drilling. rick santorum says that romney is like mr. obama. he says they both favor programs over s.dividual freedom newt gingrich has scrapped plans campaign in kansas ahead of tomorrow's caucus,. instead he will focus on the south. to win tuesday's and alabama and order to justify staying in the race. he spent his first day under protectionice while campaigning in mississippi. >>

president obama expected to talk about jobs and the economy to virginia and today. he will start with a tour of a rolls-royce plant near richmond houston forl fly to before returning to the white house late tonight. the move the game change saturday night on hbo. julianne moore was in d.c. last night. she and several other stars event.d at a red carpet the movie looked back at john mccain's run for president in that led to the palin as hissarah running mate. >> the latest on the battle c's and tablets. >> the personal computer is not dead yet. it's expected to increase this year. much of the growth will be in ultrabook running windows 8.

the campaign to topple an african dictator is using youtube and social media. army havehis kidnapped thousands of children be childd them to soldiers and a sex slaves. a safe the internet and video , watching more television days, four hours a day. is an hour more than in 2004. age, they want more television as well. have a great weekend. with adamck in caskey to find out what's happening outside. >> cooler temperatures especially into themorning and afternoon. the is when the core of be in place.ll but it will be raining. we will warm up again nicely. it's good for the garden. a weather pattern next week will

be a lot like yesterday. it will last pretty much all next week. about conditions right now. have areas of light rain moving maryland.uthern crossing the potomac down into the northern neck and middle peninsula. back edge along and east of 95. that will continue pushing east and out of here. have a lot of sunshine through the majority of the day today. line is the clearing through western maryland virginia andwest western pennsylvania. a wide reaching cold front causing a long line of main and all the way fro through the mid-atlantic and into the deep south. look at louisiana and getting in on the action. air selling into place tomorrow and then we and be on thend with temperatures on sunday through next week. breeze today for sure. windl notice gusty

periodically today. t as windy as of today, but you will notice. it is a cool breeze. there was a warm breeze yesterday. is chilling. martinsburg, 41 in .agerstown right now district, 51. 51 in annapolis highs today. in the 50's. mid to upper 50's, partly cloudy, northwesterly wind at 10-20, gusting up to 25. if its trash and recycling day, away,hey take everything to put those bins away. upper 40's tomorrow, sunshine. total sunshine on sunday and temperatures begin rising again. 62 on sunday. it gets better. look at next week, low 70's again, especially by tuesday. the majority of next week will 70's.the low maybe an isolated showers on

tuesday morning. thunder thursday afternoon. pattern.ike >> it will be complicated by in on 15nd with a crash between thurmont and the pennsylvania line. maryland state police say it's serious. nothing complicated on 95 in virginia. come in fredericksburg, normal volume to get into springfield. looks good on 395 inside the beltway. nll will travel times betwee washington and baltimore on 95. 270 in rockville, beautiful. by the way, metro rail is on service. back inside. >> thank you. 5:20, 41 degrees in silver spring. >> coming up next -- >> ovechkin scores! >> you cannot spell over time without ov.

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struggling in the standings. they came into last night's game against tampa bay two points behind. still some time. there's a big road trip ahead d the lightning on their heels, so this game would be critical. picking it up in the third, doing some work. there.johansson tying the game at two. life in the phone book. good over time. chimera with a little hesitation. alex ovechkin there. they win and are two points now. have a great debt. -- day. >> 46 degrees in leesburg. the news continues at 5:30. >> more problems for metro. the latest on a report that the problemsew about brake years butl system for them.t fix

>> and a gun battle between antgomery county police and silver spring man this morning. latest cominghe up in a live report. >> tracking areas of grain through parts of our region can and colder air

>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> continuing to follow breaking from northwest. two police officers exchanged man, hitting him several times a. have an update. good morning, washington. morning, march 9. i am steve cheveney. i am cynne simpson. we begin with traffic and weather every ten minutes.

adam caskey has the forecast. it is a little wet. >> a little. much in terms of overall rainfall. generally under a 10th of an inch. some areasve lingering. otherwise a lot of sunshine today. the back edge moving to la plata and waldorf. . mary's county still in on action as well as the of calvert county. huntingtown and southport into the northern neck and middle peninsula. 46 right now in washington, 47 in gainesville. downswinges on the today and tomorrow. we had the 70's today. in the 50s today. front putting us in our of theith some wind out northwest. even cooler on saturday. seven-day is coming up. an accident in thurmont, maryland. south of el middleburg. a portion of north on 15 will be closed if coming all of thurmont

for an undetermined amount of time. in fort washington, a portion of brinkley rd. is closed just east rosecroft. interstate travel, beltway normal. complicated in and out baltimore and. news. breaking let's get to the breaking news we have been following from northwest d.c. where a man was after exchanging gunfire with police. this happened along eastern avenue. ist is where john gonzalez getting the latest information. what happened? >> the police chief is calling foura gun battle between officers and a silver spring man. it happened on eastern avenue h divides d.c. and downtown silver spring. police officers from boulder jurisdictions started receiving around 12:40 this morning of gunshots fired on the north road.f the when police arrived they were

the gunshots. when they encountered the armed gun toward thehe .fficers and continued firing and eighth-year veteran and month ability to return fire. the armed man was struck at t three times and is in critical condition. >> we had several officers actually responding to the case. one of the officers had a rookie in the two-h him ar.cer c -- car. of the others were involved in a gunbattle >> . the officer of 80 years was hand.d in hathe moments after the shooting, a woman showed up at the scene. e was emotional and visible upset. she was al us that relative of the suspect who on the north side of

eastern avenue. taken over thee investigation and are waiting for search warrants. years.cer of 8 >> and investigators are looking the deaths of two infants. >> in frederick, maryland, that the latest. members of a family were whening out to the vehicle of an infante body inside the trunk. if investigators are relativesng those the owner of the vehicle. william county, a three-month old girl died when home dayushed from a care. more.ummy olabanji has >> good morning. neighbors telesat the woman who owns a house behind me has been home day care about four years. we spoke with parents last night surprised to find out that the child had been

found dead inside the home. happened around 1:00 yesterday afternoon. a call to 911 that a unresponsive. they rushed the baby to the and she later died of her injuries. lot of parents came here to pick kids and were very surprised to hear any of this happening. >> i was shocked and then the next reaction was i just felt for the child and the family and then i felt sad about because they are and they ladies basically raised my child. >> we did hear from some of the parents who came to pick up yesterday.ren runs the data was out of the country taking karen a sick parent. they say that some assistance or helping take care of the children alcohol. -- the woman who runs the day was out of the country a sick parent.

no charges have been filed, but the day care has been shut down. >> two men charged in a shooting in aspen hill will have a bond review hearing today. a 21-year-old was killed afternoon in the home superior st.. sources tell us that it happened during a military-style game. a 20-year-old christopher edwards and 19-year-old andrew recklessharged with endangerment and ed harris is with second-degree murder. >> leslie johnson is scheduled to serving a prison sentence today. year and one day for her a corruption scheme to serve at acted virginia.ison in west jack johnson started serving a seven-year sentence last month. >> a new report shows that problemsw about brake

yearshe real system for but did not fix them. is live inter with what exactly passengers are setting about this. imagine they are not happy. not at all. few months ago a involving the brakes. it appears metro has known about the issues since 2006. why did they not fix them? it all comes down to money. for passengers that use the rules every day, or that metro about dangers but waited fix them is beyond upsetting. >> i believe that is negligence part.ir they should have been proactive about its. it makes me want to consider options like driving. >> . issuep's failure is the surfaced on an orange couple months ago. in 2006, similar incidents led them to recommend replacing the series trains000-

but that dider, not happen. as a result of financial constraints, which affected the organization, that overall program was deferred. >> then came the deadly red line crash in 2009. the safety issues that raised issue to slip is through the cracks. >> , and people have to get hurt youose their lives because ?on't correct a problem >> since the recent incidents in january, metro has to rebecca problems repairs are 98% 5000-series real cars. manager insists this transit system is safe. >> thank you. 5:36, 46 degrees in leesburg. >> still ahead, a trip to pittsburgh turns into a for some local students. how they found themselves locked

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morning. [unintelligible] >> good morning, washington. >> a swede children at martin luther king elementary in southeast. i was there yesterday. are first graders and they brilliant. with them. away children. " lisa baden has a look at the roads. >> the beltway looks good as well travel.state have had a couple serious rex in fort washington, a portion of brinkley rd. is shut down .dent elementary school road.closed near roddy

to thewill take you traffic moving nicely. go to adam caskey. >> we have areas of light rain early this morning, mainly maryland and across the potomac into the northern neck of virginia. we will start with super doppler will jump into the forecast for today. 50 degrees in solomon's island lexington park, 55 in leonardtown. the rain moving s of st.ata and part county and approach to .ontross, virginia that is the back edge. becoming sunny within the next few hours. partly cloudy this afternoon, temperatures in the 50's and a little breezy. much colder than yesterday. high temperature will be about 57 later on today. down in the upper 20s tonight. below average highs tomorrow in with a lot of

sunshine. sunday with total sunshine. that the forecast. metro track work could make to get aroundolks town this weekend if. red line trains will not be n dupont circle between 10:00 closing on sunday. pretty much the entire weekend. van ness. yellow line trains will single between reagan national road.t and braddock eastern market to stadium- armory. >> looking at 41 degrees in silver spring. and a verbal statement from robertson. why he supports legalization of marijuana. >> and why the universit

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a swat team swarmed the area for a possible second shooter. was locked ineam a peterson center for about two hours and they are fine. televangelist pat robertson says that he supports legalizing marijuana. the christian talk show host treated drug should be like alcohol. believes the government owes the and thatugs has failed possessing small amounts of marijuana should not be a crime. >> we are hours away from critical indicator of the economy. >> the february jobs report morning.later this tahman bradley tells us it is closely watched the main street to wall street to the white house. today's monthly jobs report economyted to show the stronger. >> the consensus estimate is for over 200,000, but some 250 totes go up to thousand. be theo, this would straight month the company than 200,000 jobs.

but there are signs the economic slow.ry remains people seeking the unemployment benefits rose 362,000, notk'sto mention the gas prices have soared to record high. this president has been president, the cost of gas has doubled. not what he might have hoped for. he says it is not his fault. we have gone to yes weekend to it's not my fault. >> the president's handling of the expected to be a during the general election. when obama took office in an plummet rate was 7.8% and it p to 10% and is now 8.3%. gas prices averaged $1.84 a office.hen he took now the average is $3.79 a. he will focus on the economy when you travel to a in virginia. plant the president argues the began before he took office and that his economy

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39% of investors between ages 21 and 50 are confident they will have enough money for retirement. most say they also expect to retire around age 62 and have 22 years,ey to last so up to age 84. however, investors should have money to last them at least until age 95. the gerber story, voluntarily withdrawing gentle powder formula with expiration date of march 5, 2013. the product is safe to drink, says, but has a .oticeable odor more details on my twitter page about what to do if you have some on hand. linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. enteris still time to facebook giveaway where you could win the new ipad. this is a good one. all you have to do is go on

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sociology of sports. cool glass. also took pottery and did not very well. but the focus was on the weather. focus is on cooler temperatures. we enjoyed a 70's yesterday. was great. early next week we will be back ,n the nice weather pattern usinglike, giving around 70 degrees. b. have lingering light rain in county, norcal wirt s island,ear solomon neck and middle moving out of town. e some clearing within behind rain hours have a lot of sunshine for the majority of the day. the clearing line moving into virginia. and western virginia band of rain stretching from canada into louisiana and texas. that is part of a cold front. that stretched all way across the entire east coast of the united states. that is pushing through. behind that we have the core of

into downir spilling throughout the day. a northwesterly wind is pushing in the cold air. will notice gusty winds periodically. witty asot be as yesterday, but very breezy. northwesterly at 10-20, gusting 30.to about we were gusting up to about 35 yesterday. are gusting to about 25 miles an hour, rather. hagerstown, 41. cooler air northwest of town. 39 in cumberland. oakland, 28. quantico, 52. lexington park, 50. 57, partly cloudy, breezy this afternoon. mostly sunny and even cooler tomorrow, upper 40's. a leveraged. sunday, as the of the weekend, highs in the low 60's and near 70 most of next week. >> what is it like? everything is pretty decent this

morning no major problems to report as far as interstate travel, travel. 95 and across the wilson bridge, giving you the green light. maryland on 50 301 and kenilworth ave. no incidents on 95 or 66. 214 coming out of beverly well stay might as where you are. hit a utility pole on central avenue. you will not able to get out mayo and muddy creek road. only one way out of there. never a good. thanks so much. 5:54 is the time.

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